Tell Your Story

We are looking to collect anonymous personal narratives from individuals who have worked in or are recipients of services from the global health/development sector, namely NGOs and non-profit organizations. We are creating space for dialogue and reporting on instances that are ethically questionable, irresponsible, inefficient, or at the far end of the spectrum, outright corrupt. We are aiming to create a typology of unethical conduct to help inform global health practitioners and create more ethical delivery systems.

Unethical conduct is one of the biggest barriers to global health success, causing a waste of resources, an exploitation of poverty, and a disheartening for those who are hopeful for better lives. We need to address it now. Our survey is available at the following link in 5 languages (English, Hindi, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic).

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The GHW is an effort to contribute a missing piece to the dialogue on accountability in global health. While most existing efforts focus on how money was spent in terms of charts and graphs, or how many employees are on the payroll, we want to feel what it is like to be at an NGO. …

One of the fundamental premises of The Global Health Watch (GHW) is to amplify the voices of those who traditionally are unheard and unrepresented. At the most vulnerable level, we have villagers, slum dwellers, refugees, political prisoners, ethnic minorities, children, women, the elderly, the disabled, LGBTQ communities… the list goes on. Among them, we have …

The Global Health Watch requires many working parts that we don’t want to take for granted. First, it requires that people are able to write their narrative, or have someone who is willing to write it for them; thus, it requires literacy, to some level. This is a substantial challenge in many parts of the world …